Dr. David Dowell
Dr. David Dowell
Vice Provost for Planning & Budgets
Director of Strategic Planning
Dr. Dowell holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Psychology (1977) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with emphases in Program Evaluation, Applied Social, and Community Psychology. He holds a B.S. degree (1973) from Middle Tennessee State University with a major in psychology and minors in Mathematics and Sociology. He has held prior CSULB positions in the past as Director of Strategic Planning, Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Special Assistant to the Provost, Acting Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Associate Professor of Psychology, and Assistant Professor of Psychology.
Dr. Dowell is author or co-author of more than 120 scholarly publications, book chapters, presentations and technical reports. He has specialized in applied social research and program evaluation on topics related to education, mental health, homelessness and criminal justice. He has authored more than twenty grants totaling several million dollars. He worked for several years on issues related to K-16 collaboration; he founded and for several years directed the “California K-16 Collaboration and Student Success” conference held annually in Long Beach. He has served as a mentor for underrepresented college students. He has served as an evaluation consultant for several federally (NSF, NIH) funded science mentoring programs, the California Senate Office of Research, and other projects and he has served as a consultant for strategic planning. He has conducted scholarly work internationally in India, China, Cambodia, Austria, (then) East and West Germany, England, Spain, Italy, Netherlands (then) Yugoslavia.
